would you take a win vs. LSU

j0nat8an · October 28, 2005

not saying it's going to happen. i guess this is just assuming that we will win some more games and be in the hunt for the SBC title.

Stan R · October 28, 2005

no, I think attendance is too critical to wait that long for a W... Even if it is LSU.

eeally · October 28, 2005

Yes,

If this is indeed a serious question. A win over LSU would make our season.

But we would not lose to ARK State. I hate those guys.

eulesseagle · October 28, 2005

It is always a possibility to win.......even against LSU.

1. NTSU, if it were not for a bad call at Arkansas in 1968 we would have won.

2. NTSU, ...........................................Texas.........1988 ......................won.

3. NTSU beat Texas Tech 3 times when we were D-1AA ('88) and D-1('97 & '99).

4. Stanford, this year, got beat by Cal-Davis, a D-II school.

5. Troy got an alleged bad call in the 4th quarter against LSU and could have/should have won last year.

Who knows????????

class84 · October 28, 2005

I'd take it without a doubt. We're still living off of the Tennessee upset from 30+ years ago, and this would be 10x the magnitude of that game. This would go down as the greatest college upset of the last 25 years, at least.

Back to reality, ain't no way it's happening.

Coffee and TV · October 28, 2005

4. Stanford, this year, got beat by Cal-Davis, a D-II school.
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Provisional I-AA team, actually. But you have a good point.

Mad Hatter · October 28, 2005

Not just yes, but Bleep Yes!

DoubleEagle · October 28, 2005

No way. If we lose to LSU, but win out (obviously a very BIG if) we would be 6-5 with at least a share of the league title likely. I realize we aren't playing well right now but we have all seen this team turn it around before.

Michael Scott · October 28, 2005

No way. If we lose to LSU, but win out (obviously a very BIG if) we would be 6-5 with at least a share of the league title likely. I realize we aren't playing well right now but we have all seen this team turn it around before.
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Are you kidding me?

That win would do more for our program than anything else we can do this year - even a 6-5 league record where they reject us for a bowl game on tie breakers that we would lose anyway.

Beating LSU is one of those things that everyone would remember 10, 20, 30 years - going 6-5 and peaking against Sun Belt schools is not. They'd call us giant killers and what not and we would get so much national pub from that win.

Why is this even up for debate?

If anyone needs inspiration NCAA 2006 said we could win by 20 last night. I should send the summary of the game and post it on the athletics website for inspiration

FirefightnRick · October 28, 2005

NTSU beat Texas Tech 3 times when we were D-1AA ('88)....

Wins over 1-A teams while we were 1-AA.

'83-New Mexico State, New Mexico,

'85- K State,

'86- TCU

'87- La Tech

'88- T Tech, Texas* and Rice

'90-SMU

Rick

*.....I was there sitting on the 2nd row on the south endzone goal line, we won that @#$#ing game.

FirefightnRick · October 28, 2005

oh, and I absolutely would take a final win of the season over LSU. That's all anyone would remember from here on through next fall. Huge recruiting power, huge!

Rick

eagle60 · October 28, 2005

In '83 I was at both UNM and NMSU games over in New Mexico. My kids bet me that if the local teams won I would have to eat chocolate ice cream after the game. If they lost they agreed to eat whoever flavor I ordered. Postgame we were all eating lime green sherbet!

GoMeanGreen1999 · October 28, 2005

I would take a win over LSU even if it meant losing all of the OOC games next year. what a win that would be....won't happen, but we would be the talk of the nation.

ntmeangreen11 · October 28, 2005

hell yes.

I would not think twice about it either, pick up a OOC win we need so badly and are so ridiculously overdue for especially a team of this magnitude would do wonders. Losing the next week is bad, but ten years from now, we can say, atleast we beat LSU.

DoubleEagle · October 28, 2005

Are you kidding me?
That win would do more for our program than anything else we can do this year - even a 6-5 league record where they reject us for a bowl game on tie breakers that we would lose anyway.

A fluke win does nothing for our program. The story won't be how we beat LSU, it will be how LSU somehow found a way to lose to us.

I'll take a shot at a conference championship over a guaranteed OOC victory anyday. And no, I'm not kidding you.

Michael Scott · October 28, 2005

A fluke win does nothing for our program. The story won't be how we beat LSU, it will be how LSU somehow found a way to lose to us.
I'll take a shot at a conference championship over a guaranteed OOC victory anyday. And no, I'm not kidding you.
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Agree to disagree....

I just look at the way people still discuss the Tennessee win, the Tech wins, and when we "beat" Texas and I think those are the ones that stick out in a media guide or program in recruiting alongside an overall decent conference record. If we won the conference year we would also have a lot of negative coverage mixed in with the good. I do not see the harm in setting aside one rebuilding year to put a huge notch under the programs belt and more exposure than any NO Bowl would ever give us.

Now, if we pulled the upset and then sucked next year (or years) - then I lean towards your opinion, but for a rebuilding team like we are to have that going in to 2006 would be huge. I think you would get your share of LSU blew it stories, but also positive ones on NT and the program - but NT would have that "giant killer" tag going into to every OOC game they played for the next 2 years. If they kept winning 1 or 2 OOC games and winning the Sun Belt, the rep could do nothing but grow.

Plus, imagine Dickey's post game press conference as he addresses all of us? It could be his ultimate eff off to everyone of us who doubted him. Even Captain Fry Street Apathetic Stoner would stand up a little straighter and smile a little wider when he came too again on Tuesday.

This concludes my dream for stuff that will not ever happen.

Cajun Tigah · October 28, 2005

If you did beat us, (or if we found a way to lose) you should still be able to handle your conf. schedule. Even with us being very flat, we should handle your remaining conf. games. Therefore, you should be able to handle them also.

UNTSportsGuy · October 28, 2005

Win Out. Starting tomorrow.

GreenFlag · October 29, 2005

Wins over 1-A teams while we were 1-AA.
'83-New Mexico State, New Mexico,
'85- K State,
'86- TCU
'87- La Tech
'88- T Tech, Texas* and Rice
'90-SMU
Rick

How could your forget the landmark win against Arkansas State in 1990?

FirefightnRick · October 29, 2005

GreenFlag

How could your forget the landmark win against Arkansas State in 1990?

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I suppose I forgot that was the year ASU moved up?

I'll still never forget the game the year before in 1989 in Jonesborro, it was a great game and came down to the wire. It was unseasonably cold for late September and was ASU's second highest opening night crowd. Kieth Chapman hit a 32 yard field goal with 4 seconds left for the win. Scott Davis passed for 244 yards on the night and reached the 4,000 yard mark for his career. Other than the girl who traveled to perform as "Eppy", we were the only NT fans in the stands that we saw. No parents, no AD dept officials, no one. After the winning kick, the ASU fans were throwing food and spitting on us so bad that my roommate, who was on the team, and several other players noticed it when they came over to talk to us and ended up helping me lower her down to them on the field and we left the stadium with the team through the locker room just to avoid any more confrontations.

Rick

Edited October 29, 2005 by FirefightnRick